Double Slit Experiment on Refracted light?

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Has anyone done the double slit experiment on light after being refracted into its separate colors of the spectrum? (Hope I asked this right, because I'm curious if each individual color still behaves the same way as when unrefracted light is passed through the two slits) I guess what I'm wondering is if the component parts of light all exhibit the same behavior as light, in general, when doing the double slit experiment.. To get my answer, someone will have to have taken light, passed it through a prism, and then lined up each color, one by one, so that each color has a chance to be tested by the double slit experiment to see if it first acts as a particle, and then as a wave, as unrefracted light does. So, has anyone done this yet? I am very curious to know the answer to this.
 
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Technocreep said:
Has anyone done the double slit experiment on light after being refracted into its separate colors of the spectrum? (Hope I asked this right, because I'm curious if each individual color still behaves the same way as when unrefracted light is passed through the two slits) I guess what I'm wondering is if the component parts of light all exhibit the same behavior as light, in general, when doing the double slit experiment.. To get my answer, someone will have to have taken light, passed it through a prism, and then lined up each color, one by one, so that each color has a chance to be tested by the double slit experiment to see if it first acts as a particle, and then as a wave, as unrefracted light does. So, has anyone done this yet? I am very curious to know the answer to this.

I don't understand what do find special about refraction.
Both refraction and interference can be understood by a wave model.

But to the other part of the question, sure, interference work with the components of the white light. Most of the times these day the double slit experiment is done with lasers that are quite monochromatic, that means they contain only one component (actually a very narrow band) of the white light spectrum.
I did it myself at various times, with red, green and blue lasers. It works.